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                    <p>Jonathan began at Carnegie Mellon University after receiving his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. His Bachelor’s degree (also in political science) is from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His dissertation is a historical, quantitative look at the Electoral College and its consequences.</p>
                    <p>In 2021, Jonathan served as the redistricting consultant for the Pennsylvania <span class="jc-highlight highlighted">Legislative Reapportionment Commission</span>. He was appointed to that position by a vote of the commission. The final plan received a bi-partisan vote and was upheld unanimously by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. <a href="https://www.redistricting.state.pa.us/maps/">You can see these plans here</a>. He served as Special Master for the state of New York in 2022 [Harkenrider v. Hochel (2022)] and <a href="/2022/NY/CERVAS-SM-NY-2022.pdf" target=”_blank”>drew the state's 26 Congressional Districts and 63 state Senate districts</a>. He has also served as the assistant to a federal court Special Master in drawing remedial maps in three redistricting cases involving minority rights. The first of these was <span class="jc-highlight highlighted">Navajo Nation et al v. San Juan County</span>,Utah in 2017; followed in 2018-19 by <span class="jc-highlight highlighted">Bethune-Hill et al v. State Board of Election</span>,which involved the redrawing of one quarter of the districts in Virginia's legislative districts in the House Of Delegates; and in 2019-20, he worked on <span class="jc-highlight highlighted">Wright v. Sumter County Board of Elections</span>, a case involving school districts in a small Georgia County where former President Jimmy Carter makes his home. He has published several articles on both the elections and gerrymandering, and is a Research Associate at the <a href="https://www.electoral-lab.org" target=”_blank”>Electoral Innovation Lab</a>.</p>
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                            <span class="jc-highlight highlighted">The GOP scared Latinos from the census. Now that may cost the party red seats.</span>Samuel Wang and Jonathan Cervas. 2021. May 1, 2021. <em>The Washington Post</em>.
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                            <span class="jc-highlight highlighted">Pennsylvania has to draw new congressional districts, but getting rid of gerrymandering will be harder than you think.</span>Bernard Grofman and Jonathan Cervas. 2018. February 9, 2018. <em>The Washington Post</em>.
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            <p>I served as the <a href="https://www.cmu.edu/ips/news-and-events/jonathan-cervas-pa-reapportionment-commission.html" target=”_blank”>redistricting consultant</a> for the <a href="https://www.redistricting.state.pa.us/" target=”_blank”>Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission</a>. The LRC developed state Senate and House of Represenative lines for the 2020 decade. Those maps were <a href="https://www.redistricting.state.pa.us/commission/article/1096" target=”_blank”>approved via a bipartisan vote</a>, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court <a href="https://www.pacourts.us/Storage/media/pdfs/20220316/195610-lrcpetitonsforrevieworder.pdf" target=”_blank”>unanimously affirmed</a> their constitutionality.</p>
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            <p>As the Assistant to the Special Master, I helped redraw Sumter County's <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/us/politics/voting-rights-georgia.html" target=”_blank”>racially gerrymandered school board.</a></p>
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            <p>The Navajo Nation had been denied represenation in the county commission. My <a href="https://github.com/jcervas/Completed-Projects/tree/master/San%20Juan%20County" target=”_blank”>redraw</a> allowed them to elect a majority for the first time in American history.</p>
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                <p>As the Assistant to the Special Master, I helped <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/supreme-court-virginia-house-delegates-gerrymandering.html" target=”_blank”>redraw 25 of the 100</a> Virginia state legislative districts</p>
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            <p>I am an expert witness for the plaintiffs. I have filed five reports regarding either the TN House or TN Senate. See here. <a href="/2022/TN/tn1.pdf">1</a>, <a href="/2022/TN/tn2.pdf">2</a>, <a href="/2022/TN/tn3.pdf">3</a>, <a href="/2022/TN/tn4.pdf">4</a>, <a href="/2022/TN/tn5.pdf">5</a></p>
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